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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:05:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org>
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Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Xuan Baldauf wrote:

> Now I made all my partitions noatime, and wow,
> 
> sync; hdparm -C -Y /dev/hda; sync; hdparm -C /dev/hda
> 
> does not necessarily spin up the disk!

Because you have to issue a drive reset.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy


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